According to The Lexington Herald-Leader, Gray's next step will be to petition a local council to request the state military commission's permission to move the statues to a more appropriate location, where they can be viewed as pieces of history, rather than in places of honor.

Vice Mayor Steve Kay told The Herald-Leader that he expected the council to comply.

"I think this is a good solution and the right thing to do," Kay told the publication. "I think moving the statues to Veterans Park will allow the city to still honor history. But we will also be able to add additional signage to give the statues the appropriate context and explain how they came to be and what was going on in Lexington at that time."

Gray was joined in his defiance of Unite The Right's stated aims by people from across the country. One woman tweeted out a list of Charlottesville charities folks could donate to that "those Nazi jerks would really hate," including the town's NAACP chapter and Charlottesville Pride. And, as reported by HuffPost's Christopher Mathias, many Charlottesville businesses demonstrated their ideals as well, closing down for the day to protest the protests.